Scott Simon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Simon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Simon |
| SIGNATURE | SIMON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies University of Ottawa Ottawa Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How museums in Japan and Taiwan are supporting Indigenous cultural revitalisation
Museums are developing new practices of partnership and collaboration in relation to Indigenous knowledges
La situation coloniale et la résurgence autochtone en Asie du Nord-Est
La situation coloniale et la résurgence autochtone en Asie du Nord-Est : essai bibliographique sur les revendications politiques des Aïnous / Nukishio Kuzô, 2023 [1934], Assimilation et vestiges des Aïnous. Manifeste précurseur autochtone. Montréal, Presses de l’Université du Québec, coll. « Jardin de givre », 288 p. / Dobashi Yoshimi, 2023, Penriuk et sa douleur. Ossements aïnous retenus prisonniers. Montréal, Presses de l’Université du Québec, …
Darryl Sterk, Indigenous Cultural Translation
Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan
Of Boars and Men
Wayfaring in Taiwan during Covid-19
What are the political and ontological implications of COVID-19? I had plenty of time to reflect on this from March to July after I ended fieldwork in Guam and unexpectedly spent four months in Taiwan. Because of Taiwan's proximity to China, where the pandemic began, it initially seemed as if it would be among the most serious cases. Instead, Taiwan's public health measures allowed it to become one of the few places in the world relatively untouc…
Penser avec des oiseaux
L'ornithomancie, la divination par l'observation humaine du comportement des oiseaux, est particulièrement élaborée en Asie de Sud-Est et en Océanie. Les autochtones de Taïwan, qui font partie de l'aire culturelle du monde austronésien, regardaient attentivement les oiseaux afin d'anticiper les évènements de l'avenir. Dans les tribus truku et sediq, les chasseurs scrutaient la ligne de vol de l'oiseau ditsisilafin de prédire le succès ou l'échec …
Émissaires des ancêtres
Les Truku de Taïwan, jadis reconnus pour l'art de la guerre et la chasse aux têtes humaines dans les forêts montagneuses de l'île, possèdent une riche connaissance de la faune et de la flore sauvages qui s'y trouvent. Les chasseurs et les horticulteurs observent le comportement des oiseaux pour le plaisir, pour protéger leurs semences et pour y déceler des signes divinatoires. L'oiseau appelésisil(Alcippe à joues grises,Alcippe morrisonia), qui e…
Real People, Real Dogs, and Pigs for the Ancestors
Humans and other animals often engage in multispecies relations that go beyond classical definitions of "domestication," not least because there are political dimensions to those relations. External interference with human-animal relationships has notably been part of indigenous experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism. I examine here changes in the triangular relationship between humans, dogs, and pigs among the indigenous Seejiq Truku of …
Of Boars and Men
Around the world, especially since the passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, indigenous people have hoped that advances in legal rights can help them gain recognition for their ecological knowledge and autonomy in the use of natural resources. In Taiwan, following legal changes in the 2005 Basic Law on Indigenous Peoples, indigenous people hope to gain control of their own hunting regime through establishment …
Formosa's First Nations and the Japanese
The Japanese administration of Formosa from 1895-1945 changed the island's social landscape forever; not least by bringing the Austronesian First Nation people of eastern and central Taiwan under the administration of the modern nation-state for the first time. The Taroko tribe of Northeastern Taiwan (formerly part of the Atayal tribe) was the last tribe to submit to Japanese rule, but only after the violent subjugation of an anti-Japanese uprisi…
Politics and Headhunting among the Formosan Sejiq
Memories of headhunting, and ritual re‐enactments of those former violent practices, are still politically meaningful in contemporary Oceania and Southeast Asia. The case of the Sejiq of Taiwan illustrates how such practices were transformed and eventually terminated as a result of colonialism and the incorporation of formerly stateless peoples into new political institutions. Headhunting was once an expression of the sacred law of Gaya , as both…
An anthropologist at the Social Forum
The World Social Forum, with its goals of grassroots democracy and ecological sustainability, has been slow to take roots in the Chinese-speaking world. This research note describing the first Social Forum in Taiwan shows how the Social Forum is rooted in local networks and struggles. Due to the authoritarian regime on the Chinese mainland, there is little hope for a Social Forum there in the near future
Femme économique
Les anthropologues sont fascinés depuis longtemps par les différentes formes d'échange. Cet article, fondé sur une recherche de terrain dans trois villages autochtones taïwanais, s'intéresse aux différents moyens d'échange utilisés par les femmes qui tiennent des échoppes. Plutôt que de s'identifier elles-mêmes comme des entrepreneures, la plupart d'entre elles considèrent qu'elles apportent leur contribution à la famille et à la communauté. À l'…
Animals, Ghosts, and Ancestors
The Western Pacific island of Formosa, historically claimed by both Japan and China, is usually depicted as "Taiwan" in narratives about its economic accomplishments, high-tech industry, and robust democracy1 It is portrayed as a "laboratory of Chinese culture," yet also as a "laboratory of identities" and conflicting nationalisms (Corcuff, 2002, p. xxiii). After nearly four centuries of Chinese settlement, the dominant social and political group…
Negotiating power
In this article, I look at state-indigenous relations in local elections in Taiwan. In studying elections, one learns about the dialogic relationship between indigenous groups and the state as well as about the minideals that constitute the social contract. Elections have become a part of indigenous life, even as they introduce new forms of political actors to a formerly egalitarian society. Repeated elections permit parties and state actors to n…
Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain
Tanners of Taiwan
Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987, the Chinese Nationalist Party tried to create a Chinese in Taiwan through ideological campaigns that reached deep into families, …
Domestic and International Considerations of Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election
Sweet and Sour
Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in their families and in the marketplace? How do they construct physical and social space for themselves in a traditionally male-dominated society? Most impo…
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Contesting Formosa
Throughout the world, national identities are inscribed on communities through the construction of social space. Although the identity of Taiwan-as Chinese versus Formosan-has been contested for the past fifty years, the struggles over space and memory have become increasingly visible since the lifting of martial law in 1987. This article, a product of five years of field research in Taiwan, is an attempt to read some ways in which so-called Nati…
Entrepreneurship and Empowerment
Work and Gender in Taiwan
Engendered Classes and Fractured Identities
Negotiating power
In this article, I look at state-indigenous relations in local elections in Taiwan. In studying elections, one learns about the dialogic relationship between indigenous groups and the state as well as about the minideals that constitute the social contract. Elections have become a part of indigenous life, even as they introduce new forms of political actors to a formerly egalitarian society. Repeated elections permit parties and state actors to n…
Real People, Real Dogs, and Pigs for the Ancestors
Humans and other animals often engage in multispecies relations that go beyond classical definitions of "domestication," not least because there are political dimensions to those relations. External interference with human-animal relationships has notably been part of indigenous experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism. I examine here changes in the triangular relationship between humans, dogs, and pigs among the indigenous Seejiq Truku of …
Émissaires des ancêtres
Les Truku de Taïwan, jadis reconnus pour l'art de la guerre et la chasse aux têtes humaines dans les forêts montagneuses de l'île, possèdent une riche connaissance de la faune et de la flore sauvages qui s'y trouvent. Les chasseurs et les horticulteurs observent le comportement des oiseaux pour le plaisir, pour protéger leurs semences et pour y déceler des signes divinatoires. L'oiseau appelésisil(Alcippe à joues grises,Alcippe morrisonia), qui e…
The Price of a Dream
The Price of. Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, David Bornstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997
Penser avec des oiseaux
L'ornithomancie, la divination par l'observation humaine du comportement des oiseaux, est particulièrement élaborée en Asie de Sud-Est et en Océanie. Les autochtones de Taïwan, qui font partie de l'aire culturelle du monde austronésien, regardaient attentivement les oiseaux afin d'anticiper les évènements de l'avenir. Dans les tribus truku et sediq, les chasseurs scrutaient la ligne de vol de l'oiseau ditsisilafin de prédire le succès ou l'échec …
Wayfaring in Taiwan during Covid-19
What are the political and ontological implications of COVID-19? I had plenty of time to reflect on this from March to July after I ended fieldwork in Guam and unexpectedly spent four months in Taiwan. Because of Taiwan's proximity to China, where the pandemic began, it initially seemed as if it would be among the most serious cases. Instead, Taiwan's public health measures allowed it to become one of the few places in the world relatively untouc…
Engendered Classes and Fractured Identities
A Little Bird Told Me
The tiny bird known as the sisil in some Indigenous communities in Taiwan, and as the grey-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia) by international ornithologists, has long captured the imagination of the human habitants of that island. The bird appears in the practices of Indigenous hunters and religious leaders, as well as in the writings of Kano Tadao (one of Japan's founding anthropologists) and contemporary birdwatchers. Among the many differe…
A Little Bird Told Me
The tiny bird known as the sisil in some Indigenous communities in Taiwan, and as the grey-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia) by international ornithologists, has long captured the imagination of the human habitants of that island. The bird appears in the practices of Indigenous hunters and religious leaders, as well as in the writings of Kano Tadao (one of Japan's founding anthropologists) and contemporary birdwatchers. Among the many differe…
The Price of a Dream
The Price of. Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, David Bornstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997
Entrepreneurship and Empowerment
Work and Gender in Taiwan
Engendered Classes and Fractured Identities
Contesting Formosa
Throughout the world, national identities are inscribed on communities through the construction of social space. Although the identity of Taiwan-as Chinese versus Formosan-has been contested for the past fifty years, the struggles over space and memory have become increasingly visible since the lifting of martial law in 1987. This article, a product of five years of field research in Taiwan, is an attempt to read some ways in which so-called Nati…
Domestic and International Considerations of Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election
Sweet and Sour
Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in their families and in the marketplace? How do they construct physical and social space for themselves in a traditionally male-dominated society? Most impo…
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Tanners of Taiwan
Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987, the Chinese Nationalist Party tried to create a Chinese in Taiwan through ideological campaigns that reached deep into families, …
Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain
Animals, Ghosts, and Ancestors
The Western Pacific island of Formosa, historically claimed by both Japan and China, is usually depicted as "Taiwan" in narratives about its economic accomplishments, high-tech industry, and robust democracy1 It is portrayed as a "laboratory of Chinese culture," yet also as a "laboratory of identities" and conflicting nationalisms (Corcuff, 2002, p. xxiii). After nearly four centuries of Chinese settlement, the dominant social and political group…
Negotiating power
In this article, I look at state-indigenous relations in local elections in Taiwan. In studying elections, one learns about the dialogic relationship between indigenous groups and the state as well as about the minideals that constitute the social contract. Elections have become a part of indigenous life, even as they introduce new forms of political actors to a formerly egalitarian society. Repeated elections permit parties and state actors to n…
An anthropologist at the Social Forum
The World Social Forum, with its goals of grassroots democracy and ecological sustainability, has been slow to take roots in the Chinese-speaking world. This research note describing the first Social Forum in Taiwan shows how the Social Forum is rooted in local networks and struggles. Due to the authoritarian regime on the Chinese mainland, there is little hope for a Social Forum there in the near future
Femme économique
Les anthropologues sont fascinés depuis longtemps par les différentes formes d'échange. Cet article, fondé sur une recherche de terrain dans trois villages autochtones taïwanais, s'intéresse aux différents moyens d'échange utilisés par les femmes qui tiennent des échoppes. Plutôt que de s'identifier elles-mêmes comme des entrepreneures, la plupart d'entre elles considèrent qu'elles apportent leur contribution à la famille et à la communauté. À l'…
Politics and Headhunting among the Formosan Sejiq
Memories of headhunting, and ritual re‐enactments of those former violent practices, are still politically meaningful in contemporary Oceania and Southeast Asia. The case of the Sejiq of Taiwan illustrates how such practices were transformed and eventually terminated as a result of colonialism and the incorporation of formerly stateless peoples into new political institutions. Headhunting was once an expression of the sacred law of Gaya , as both…
Of Boars and Men
Around the world, especially since the passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, indigenous people have hoped that advances in legal rights can help them gain recognition for their ecological knowledge and autonomy in the use of natural resources. In Taiwan, following legal changes in the 2005 Basic Law on Indigenous Peoples, indigenous people hope to gain control of their own hunting regime through establishment …
Formosa's First Nations and the Japanese
The Japanese administration of Formosa from 1895-1945 changed the island's social landscape forever; not least by bringing the Austronesian First Nation people of eastern and central Taiwan under the administration of the modern nation-state for the first time. The Taroko tribe of Northeastern Taiwan (formerly part of the Atayal tribe) was the last tribe to submit to Japanese rule, but only after the violent subjugation of an anti-Japanese uprisi…
Émissaires des ancêtres
Les Truku de Taïwan, jadis reconnus pour l'art de la guerre et la chasse aux têtes humaines dans les forêts montagneuses de l'île, possèdent une riche connaissance de la faune et de la flore sauvages qui s'y trouvent. Les chasseurs et les horticulteurs observent le comportement des oiseaux pour le plaisir, pour protéger leurs semences et pour y déceler des signes divinatoires. L'oiseau appelésisil(Alcippe à joues grises,Alcippe morrisonia), qui e…
Real People, Real Dogs, and Pigs for the Ancestors
Humans and other animals often engage in multispecies relations that go beyond classical definitions of "domestication," not least because there are political dimensions to those relations. External interference with human-animal relationships has notably been part of indigenous experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism. I examine here changes in the triangular relationship between humans, dogs, and pigs among the indigenous Seejiq Truku of …
Penser avec des oiseaux
L'ornithomancie, la divination par l'observation humaine du comportement des oiseaux, est particulièrement élaborée en Asie de Sud-Est et en Océanie. Les autochtones de Taïwan, qui font partie de l'aire culturelle du monde austronésien, regardaient attentivement les oiseaux afin d'anticiper les évènements de l'avenir. Dans les tribus truku et sediq, les chasseurs scrutaient la ligne de vol de l'oiseau ditsisilafin de prédire le succès ou l'échec …
Of Boars and Men
Wayfaring in Taiwan during Covid-19
What are the political and ontological implications of COVID-19? I had plenty of time to reflect on this from March to July after I ended fieldwork in Guam and unexpectedly spent four months in Taiwan. Because of Taiwan's proximity to China, where the pandemic began, it initially seemed as if it would be among the most serious cases. Instead, Taiwan's public health measures allowed it to become one of the few places in the world relatively untouc…
Darryl Sterk, Indigenous Cultural Translation
Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Ethnology (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works)